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Aug. 12, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
01:25:59
The Financial Big Bang Part 5: Gold, Tariffs, and the Strategies to Survive What’s Coming
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Okay, welcome to this addendum, which I'm putting at the beginning of chapter five here because, well, all the other chapters are done.
And what often happens when I'm working on a book is I will come into some additional information as I'm doing the research and working on the book.
And it just so happens that a number of really important documents have surfaced here that are highly relevant to this book.
And I want to go over those with you right here.
And then we'll get to the rest of chapter five, which is really all about action items to take and some pitfalls to avoid, things like that, sort of the action-oriented chapter of the book.
So before we get there, I want to show you something called the Bitcoin Act in the United States Senate.
All right, now this Bitcoin Act, it's not really just about Bitcoin.
It's a clever name.
The short title section, if you scroll down a little bit, Bitcoin is an acronym for boosting innovation, technology, and competitiveness through Optimize Investment Nationwide Act.
Boy, they had to work hard to come up with that one, didn't they?
They're really working it.
Now, this act is not yet law.
It hasn't passed the U.S. Senate yet, but it will likely pass this year for lots of reasons, some of which will become obvious here shortly.
If we scroll down to section 9, which is entitled Offsetting the Cost of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, then in Section C, it mentions Federal Reserve System gold certificates.
Okay, now, even though this is under the subhead of offsetting the cost of the Bitcoin Reserve, this is actually describing the process that I've been talking about here that raises money, trillions of dollars potentially, for the Treasury to do anything they want with it.
So here it is.
Let me read this for you.
Section C, Federal Reserve System Gold Certificates.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Federal Reserve Banks shall tender all outstanding gold certificates in their custody to the Secretary.
That's the Secretary of the Treasury.
Not later than 90 days after the tender of the last such certificate, the Secretary shall issue new gold certificates to the Federal Reserve Banks that reflect the fair market value price of the gold held against such certificates by the Treasury as of the date specified by the Secretary on each new gold certificate.
And then upon issue by the Secretary, each Federal Reserve Bank that receives a new gold certificate shall remit the difference in cash value between the old and new gold certificates to the Secretary for deposit in the general fund within 90 days.
Got it?
All right, so what does this say?
I mean, this is describing the mechanism right here.
It says that within six months of this law being passed, then the Federal Reserve is going to surrender all its current gold certificates, which, of course, those certificates amount to $11 billion in current valuation of 261.5 million ounces of gold priced at $42.22 each.
That's what's currently on the books.
Okay.
So again, within six months, the Fed surrenders those certificates.
Then within three months, then the Treasury issues new gold certificates at the current fair market value price of gold.
That fair market value price can be any price that the government sets, because if the government says, we're going to start buying gold at $12,000 an ounce, then that's the current price because lots of people are going to say, sold here, you can have my gold for $12,000 an ounce.
So whatever price the government sets will be the current price.
That is, if the government sets a price higher than the current market price.
If the current market price is $3,500 an ounce and the government says, well, we'll pay $10,000 an ounce, then $10,000 is the new price.
So that happens within three months.
New certificates from the Treasury go to the Fed.
Got it?
And then Within another three months, the Federal Reserve then deposits that number of dollars, you know, equal to the value on the gold certificates into the general fund of the treasury.
Note that this doesn't go specifically to buying Bitcoin or specifically to anything.
It goes into the general fund of the Treasury, which can be used to pay off maturing bonds or to issue interest payments on existing bonds or to pay down other government expenses in whatever way they want.
Or they can send it all to Zelensky in Ukraine.
I'm sure he could use it to buy more cocaine.
Whatever the case may be, it goes into the general fund.
All right, so look at the timeline here.
After this act is passed, there's six months for the Fed to surrender the current gold certificates, and then there's three months after that for the Treasury to issue new certificates based on fair market value.
So in other words, and then within three months, they get paid by the Fed.
So in other words, when this law passes, there's a maximum of nine months to the gold revaluation day, a maximum of nine months, but it could be sooner than that because the language in here says not later than 180 days and then not later than 90 days.
Well, they could do this in 10 days, you know, or 30 days or whatever.
But no more than nine months.
So if you've been wondering about what I'm talking about in this book, saying, well, is it really possible that they're going to revalue gold in order to raise all this money to fund the government?
Yes.
Look at the evidence so far.
I've shown you the article on the Federal Reserve website from Colin Weiss talking about five other countries that did this exact thing.
I've shown you the Treasury training materials.
That's the section 2.10 gold certificate account that's under a chapter one balance sheet under Federal Reserve.
And it talks about exactly this mechanism.
Quote, when the Treasury monetizes gold, it credits this account in return for deposit credit at the Federal Reserve Bank, etc., etc.
And it goes on.
I covered that in a previous chapter.
I showed you the Federal Reserve accounting sheet, which has a line item for gold certificates.
It's currently at $11 billion.
And then now I've shown you this Bitcoin Act that specifically states the mechanism, exactly how this would work, the relationship between the Treasury and the Fed, and the Treasury issues the gold certificates.
The Fed then deposits the money in the Treasury and the timeline for this.
So if you're wondering, how long do you have to stack gold before all of this happens?
Well, all you got to do is watch for the passage of this law, the Bitcoin Act, which again is named in a bit of a misleading fashion.
It's not really about Bitcoin.
It's largely about gold and treasury money, but also something about Bitcoin.
But if you watch for the passage of the Bitcoin Act, and of course I will keep you posted on this, my guess is this is going to be passed and signed into law later this year.
Then you and I will know that the clock is ticking.
You and I will know at that point with certainty that we have a maximum of nine months to stack as much gold as whatever we can or want because then the revaluation is going to take place.
But here's the thing.
We don't know the fair market value that the government is going to place on gold.
And I suppose there is a chance that the government could just say, well, the fair market value, we're just going to call it 3,500.
And in that case, then, you know, that wouldn't be much of an increase in gold.
But why would the government do that when that would raise less than $1 trillion?
When, as we have seen, the government needs at least $20 trillion over the next couple of years in order to pay off maturing treasury bonds.
And recognize that for every $4,000 of valuation of gold, it raises about $1 trillion in the Treasury general fund.
So if you were going to do this, if you're a desperate Trump administration treasury official, kind of feel sorry for Besent at this point, then you've got to figure out how to raise many trillions of dollars.
And you realize that if you want to raise, let's say, $4 trillion out of nothing, then you have to value gold at, what, $16,000 an ounce.
If you want to raise $5 trillion, you've got to value gold at $20,000 an ounce, etc.
Every $4,000 of valuation gives you another trillion dollars of liquidity, and it delays the financial collapse of the U.S. Empire.
All right, the next really important point that I'd like to explain that nobody is talking about, nobody's explaining this.
I actually figured this one out for myself.
You wonder why Trump is blocking imports to the United States.
Now, he's using tariffs as a punitive weapon.
He's punishing India.
He's punishing Japan.
He's punishing Brazil.
He's punishing the EU.
And of course, trying to punish China and other countries as well.
Vietnam, for example.
And at first, you might be thinking, oh, this is all about bringing jobs back to the U.S. This is about incentivizing factories in the U.S. This is about sanctioning countries that don't have fair trade with us.
What if I told you that that's not really what this is about?
What if I told you that Trump is blocking imports into the United States in order to make treasury debt more trustworthy?
Okay, now, in order to lower the yields that the Treasury has to pay on the debt that it auctions off.
And you might think, what?
What are you talking about?
What does that have to do with anything?
Well, let me walk you through this.
Do you know the formula for calculating the GDP, the gross domestic product?
Okay, the official formula is C plus I plus G plus X minus M. And we don't have to memorize this whole thing.
C is consumer spending and G is government spending.
What is M?
Oh, wait, I. I is business investment.
There we go.
But X and M are very important here because it's plus X minus M. So X represents the dollar value of all exports and M represents the dollar value of all imports.
Did you know that?
So the GDP is the total domestic production in essence minus the imports.
So the more we import, the lower our GDP goes.
And obviously, the less we import, the higher the GDP.
Now, you may be familiar with the concept of the debt to GDP ratio.
We've talked about it here in this book.
The debt to GDP ratio is really critical because history has shown that when countries have a debt to GDP ratio that goes over something like 125, 130% or so, that country heads to financial collapse.
And nobody trusts the debt or the treasury bonds of a country that's got a debt to GDP ratio approaching 130%.
What's the ratio for the U.S. right now?
It's a little over 120%.
And it's getting worse.
Where does that ratio need to be for treasuries to be more trustworthy and therefore for treasury yields to go down, which means that the treasury would pay lower interest payments on the debt?
Where does that debt to GDP ratio need to be?
It needs to be closer to 70%.
So how do you get the debt to GDP ratio from 120% down to 70%?
Well, in order to do that, you need to reduce our current debt, which let's just call it $37 trillion.
You need to reduce it by about 42%, which is about $15 trillion in debt reduction.
So somehow, you know, you got to bring the GDP back into balance with the debt.
You got to get this ratio to 70%.
So you either have to retire $15 trillion in debt, or you have to block a lot of imports in order to make the GDP look higher.
So if you can block a couple of trillion dollars in imports, which is exactly what Trump is doing, and if you can then revalue gold at something like $24,000, then the gold revaluation could raise $6 trillion.
Plus, like we mentioned, the stablecoin gambit might raise another $1 trillion.
That's $7 trillion.
And if you could block, I don't know, maybe a couple trillion in imports, even if it hurts American businesses, even if it causes supply chain chaos.
But that all goes back on the balance sheet.
Blocking imports makes the GDP look better, and it helps alleviate the need to raise more money to pay off the debt.
You see what I'm saying?
So because of the way the GDP is calculated, blocking imports makes it easier for the Treasury to sell Treasury debt.
And that's what Trump is trying to accomplish.
Even though this is ripping apart U.S. businesses and retailers, and it's causing huge increases in prices for consumers, which is leading to inflation.
Even though it's doing that, it's saving the Treasury.
It's saving the ability of the Treasury to sell debt with lower yields to make servicing the debt more affordable for the U.S. over the long haul.
So this kind of gets to exactly what Andy Sheckman told me in a recent interview.
Trump is going to sacrifice the dollar, which means we're going to see inflation.
We're going to see massive dollar devaluation.
He's willing to sacrifice the dollar in order to save the debt market.
This is another example of that.
So blocking imports is a strategy to alter the debt to GDP ratio so that the classification of U.S. Treasury bonds goes into a less risky category in the minds of foreign investors.
I bet nobody told you that.
I mean, this didn't even occur to me until yesterday.
Now, there's one more thing I want to show you here, which is a document from the U.S. government that confirms that population reduction is another important way to save the U.S. government about $11 trillion over several decades.
This is actually confirmed in this document, which is called FY2024 Required Supplementary Information.
It's the U.S. government unaudited for the fiscal years ended September 30th, 2024, and 2023.
Now, in this document, if you scroll down to the bottom of page 20, it's talking about the long-term costs of Social Security in trillions of dollars based on life expectancy.
And it says there's a high-cost scenario and there's a low-cost scenario.
And in this paragraph, it says the low-cost alternative is characterized by assumptions that improve the financial status of the program, such as slower improvement in mortality in parentheses, beneficiaries die younger.
Okay, you got that?
Beneficiaries die younger.
And then it says assumptions under the high cost alternative worsen the financial outlook.
Okay.
And the difference between the low cost and the high cost, that is people dying sooner and people living longer, is about $11 trillion.
And so under this chart, this is on page 21, the first bullet point says the average annual reduction in death rates.
If people die at younger ages, Social Security income relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion.
Kaboom, there's $5 trillion in savings right there with the vaccine jabs killing people younger, right?
If people live longer, the shortfall would increase by $6 trillion.
So the difference between that, you know, minus $5 trillion versus plus $6 trillion, that's $11 trillion in difference.
So in other words, there is a very recognized financial incentive, which is what I talked about in chapter three.
There's a financial incentive for our government to figure out how to kill as many people as possible once they stop working, once they stop paying taxes.
So all the retirees, all the boomers, all the seniors, like everybody in that category, everybody who's no longer working, the only way that the federal government can remain solvent is to kill off as many of those people as possible.
That's why I believe Trump is celebrating Operation Warp Speed.
He called it the most efficient and most amazing program in America's history.
What was it efficient at achieving?
Efficient at achieving early deaths, thereby saving the government trillions of dollars in long-term entitlement payouts.
And if you don't believe me on this, let me play Trump's statement for you where he is saying exactly this.
You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard.
Now your health secretary is pulling back all the funding for research.
He's saying that the risks outweigh the benefits, which puts him at odds with the entire medical community and with you.
What is going on?
Research on what?
Into mRNA vaccines.
Well, we're going to look at that.
We're talking about it, and they're doing a very good job.
And, you know, that is a pest.
Operation Warp Speed was, whether you're Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.
The efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything about it has been amazing.
So there you go.
There's Trump bragging about Operation Warp Speed, which we know was the opening chapter of a program that killed 1.5 million Americans.
So if you go back to the Social Security documents here, if people die at younger ages, then Social Security income relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion.
How many billions of dollars has the U.S. government already saved from Trump launching Operation Warp Speed and killing off people at a younger age than what they would otherwise experience?
Did you know that COVID vaccines decrease life expectancy by 37%?
That has come out of the new studies.
37% life expectancy.
And, you know, typically, the part of the life that is snuffed out is the elderly years.
Now, granted, some people die in their 20s and 30s after the vaccine jabs.
I don't think that's really the aim of the vaccine program.
What they really want to do is kill off the older people that are collecting Social Security and pensions and so on.
This is part of the solvency program.
See, you got to understand, Trump has to raise $20 plus trillion dollars or somehow find savings of $20 trillion.
So he's doing multiple things.
He's blocking imports to affect GDP, like I just described.
He's rolling out vaccines, Operation Warp Speed, mRNA, to kill off the elderly population, which will save trillions of dollars for the federal government.
He's revaluing gold in order to generate trillions of dollars out of nothing.
And he may, well, like he reinitiated student loan payback requirements to generate more revenues from the former students, most of whom cannot afford to pay anything.
But that's four things right there that Trump is doing to try to effectively bring down the debt to GDP ratio.
Now, you know, some of, I mean, those are four highly destructive things in many ways.
I mean, obviously killing off a bunch of people is a pretty evil way to balance the budget.
So is punishing India.
India didn't do anything wrong.
Or blocking supply chains for U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers.
But you see, Trump is already in the phase right now.
This is the last chapter of the fourth turning.
Trump is in the lifeboat phase of the U.S. Empire.
The U.S. Empire is on the verge of total financial destruction.
And Trump can't tell the public this, obviously, because loss of faith would break the whole system.
In fact, they wouldn't let me say this if I had the audience of someone like Joe Rogan, obviously.
The only way you're able to hear this is because I have a relatively small audience because I've been censored and deplatformed.
So my reach isn't enough to matter to the White House or to the Treasury.
They don't care that I reach this book might be listened to by a few tens of thousands of people, whatever.
That doesn't matter to them.
So they can't admit that we're on the verge of a financial implosion.
Trump has to keep saying the economy is great.
It's a golden age.
Everything's awesome.
Prices are going down, even though you know that's a lie.
You go to the grocery store.
Are prices going down?
No.
You see your health insurance rates, your car insurance rates, your home insurance rates.
Are those rates going down?
No.
They're all going up.
You know he's lying about that.
He has to maintain the lie in his mind to try to convince people everything's great while he's running these emergency operations to do crazy things like exterminate a few million Americans, the older ones, revaluing gold, blocking imports to affect the debt to GDP ratio, things like that.
Some of these things are totally insane.
But in Trump's mind and his advisors, these are necessary steps to prevent the total collapse, the fall of the empire, which will happen anyway, but they may be able to delay it.
In fact, they will delay it.
They might be able to delay it for years.
But it's clear they're sacrificing the dollar.
So yes, everything's going to get more expensive.
You're going to have supply chain disruptions that are totally insane.
The value of your dollars in savings is going to plummet.
Yeah, Trump's sacrificing the dollar, which means he's also sacrificing the middle class.
Middle class is being destroyed by this.
It's all to save the treasury or the debt market.
That's what this is all about, to keep those yields under 5%, even better, like 3.5% is what they would want, or even lower for that matter.
That's how they think they can save the empire, but they are sacrificing the American people.
But then again, since when has the federal government ever given a crap about the American people?
Never.
I mean, not in our lifetimes.
So of course they'll sacrifice Americans to shore up their own power.
What do you think 9-11 was all about?
All kinds of operations.
All right, so just to review, what I showed you here today, I've shown you the government FY 2024 document talks about Social Security saving $11 trillion by killing off people at a younger age.
I've shown you the Bitcoin Act document that lays out the specific timeline for the Treasury to issue gold certificates in exchange for new money created and deposited in the Treasury General account by the Federal Reserve.
And now you know that that's maximum nine months from the day that the Bitcoin Act is signed into law.
And I've also explained to you how GDP is calculated, which includes the value of all exports minus the value of all imports, revealing why when Trump blocks imports, he actually positively improves the GDP, which lowers the debt to GDP ratio.
You got all that?
Yeah, not everybody's going to track all this, but that's what we're looking at.
So there's actually a secret plan being played out by Trump and his officials, the same people that brought all the gold back from London earlier this year.
By the way, you think that was just random?
No.
It's all part of a secret plan.
There's a secret plan to save the debt market by sacrificing everybody else and sacrificing the dollar.
And they can't tell you about this plan.
So they have to just spout all this public nonsense, just all these fake numbers and everything else and tell you everything's great.
But behind the scenes, they're rolling out lifeboats as the Titanic is sinking.
And you can bet that every single person that is in the loop on this in the Trump administration, every single person is buying gold and silver like crazy right now.
You can bet they're maxing out every possible way to buy gold.
And many of us in the freedom movement, you know, we think that's a wise strategy.
Now, of course, don't take this as investment advice because these plans could change.
I don't know.
We could be in World War III before any of this happens.
Maybe the Senate doesn't pass the Bitcoin Act.
Maybe the debt implosion happens before they can save it.
So there are risks either way.
So don't take this as financial advice.
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So again, metalswithmike.com, if you want to get your hands on some gold and silver.
But look, talk to your own financial advisor.
Verify everything I've said here.
I want you to go find the documents.
I mean, I've given you the document titles and they're easy to find.
Like congress.gov is where you can find the Bitcoin Act text.
I've showed you the articles on the Federal Reserve website and the user manual on the Federal Reserve website, etc.
So all these are easy to find, but I encourage you, verify everything that I've said here.
In fact, launch a spreadsheet and do the math yourself because that's what I do.
When I listen to somebody, you know, even like I was watching the video from George Gammon on this.
George Gammon, he's got numbers on the whiteboard.
And I'm just the kind of guy, I'm like Ronald Reagan.
Trust but verify.
Like, yeah, I think George is being honest, but I'm going to verify these numbers.
I'm going to make my own spreadsheet run the numbers.
And then sure enough, yeah, George Gammon's numbers make sense.
But I don't trust other people's numbers by default, and you shouldn't either.
You should take everything I've said here, all the prices I've quoted.
You know, $4,000 of gold valuation translates into about $1 trillion in new liquidity for the Treasury, etc.
$42.22 is the current official gold price, the statutory gold price.
261.5 million ounces of gold is what the Treasury current claims to own, currently claims to own.
$11.041 billion is what the Federal Reserve claims is the current value, et cetera, et cetera.
You should take all those numbers and you should check them.
Make sure that I'm right.
Make sure that I haven't made a mistake in bringing you these numbers.
And when you do that, when you connect these dots and you're like, yep, check mark, that's correct.
Boom, that's correct.
Yes, that's what the law says or the proposed law.
Boom, yes, that's what the Fed manual says.
Boom, yeah, that's what Social Security admitted, $11 trillion.
Actually, it's $11.1 trillion.
Check, check, check, check, check.
You're like, holy cow, Mike Adams is right.
This thing's real.
This is their plan.
Okay?
But don't believe me just because I'm saying it.
You do the math.
You check it out yourself.
You do the research.
You back it up.
And when you do that, you're going to go buy as much gold as you can possibly buy is my guess.
Again, do what's best for you.
But I think this is a once in a lifetime.
I mean, clearly, it's a once in a lifetime.
It's probably once in the lifetime of the nation.
Well, I guess, didn't, I guess Roosevelt did this previously, raising gold from $20 to the $42, right?
So I guess maybe it's twice in the history of the nation, but it's certainly only once in our lifetimes for most of us, unless you were alive in the 30s.
Maybe some of you were.
Congratulations.
But most of our listeners were not.
So this is once in our lifetimes.
And all the evidence is there.
All the signs are there.
In my mind, it's abundantly clear that the number one thing that we all need to do to be prepared for this is to stack gold and arguably silver as well to get ready for the revaluation.
And I don't mean to buy options on gold.
I'm not talking about risky leverage.
I'm not talking about ETFs on gold.
I'm not talking about gold, you know, gold.
Well, I guess they're all ETFs, different funds.
I'm talking about physical.
Because if the financial system goes down, then I don't know that you can count on electronically claimed gold or whatever.
I don't know.
I guess it depends on how bad it gets.
But I know that gold and silver in your hands is hard for the government to mess with.
It's hard for anybody to make it vanish.
It's hard for them to steal it.
You've got the physical gold, then you're in command.
You've got possession of it.
And that's always going to have value in any system, even if the U.S. falls and collapses and then the new states rise up.
They will have to launch their own new currencies.
And states like Texas will no doubt back them partially by gold.
I have no doubt about that.
And, you know, gold's a tier one asset that's recognized all over the world.
Now, I mean, it's recognized in every culture.
Gold is mentioned over 200 times in the Bible.
It's been around longer than any modern nation state or most cities for that matter.
I mean, gold's been here long before human beings ever walked the earth.
So gold's going to be around long after we're gone.
It's certainly going to make it through this U.S. debt implosion financial crisis, which is going to destroy the middle class and destroy the dollar.
So think about what I'm saying here.
Double check everything.
And then I'm going to bring you the rest of chapter five in a separate recording, which is about actions to take and some pitfalls to avoid.
We'll talk about also storing physical gold and silver in a safe manner and vaulting versus taking possession of it.
What forms of gold and silver are wise to purchase, things like that.
I mean, the short version is get the most recognized versions from there's about, I don't know, six or seven world mints that everybody recognizes in the gold and silver industry.
Just don't get these weird coins that nobody's ever heard of in weird sizes.
You know, it's like one and five eighths ounces.
No, nobody wants that.
It should be one troy ounce, period, or a tenth of an ounce, or a quarter ounce, or a 10-ounce bar.
Like stick with normal things that everybody recognizes.
Don't go off on weird coins.
That's just the short version.
But I'll give you more in the next segment of chapter five.
So thanks for listening so far, and there's more straight ahead.
All right, for this section of chapter five, we'll be looking at practical solutions of how to do three things, which is acquiring gold and silver, owning gold and silver, and storing or keeping it safe.
And there's a knowledge set in each of these three areas that's really critical.
Now, most people, after learning about the information that I've shared in this book, most people realize that they should acquire more gold.
They see what's happening.
They believe that the Trump administration is about to engage in the revaluation.
They also see the collapse of the dollar and the, you know, the failure of the treasury to sell off all the debt that it needs to sell at rates that it wants to offer, etc.
Not hard to read the writing on the wall.
Not difficult to come to the conclusion that gold and silver are probably the best way to preserve assets through this financial turmoil that we are experiencing at a civilizational level.
But there's a right way and a wrong way to buy gold.
There's a right way and a wrong way to own gold.
And most of you listening are probably not optimizing the best way to own it.
And also, there's a right way and a wrong way to keep it or store it.
So let's go through these very quickly.
For whatever reason, the precious metals retail industry, it tends to attract a lot of shady characters.
There's some shady outfits out there that make a ton of money by ripping people off, especially people on the older side, by offering them these weird coins that are odd and odd ounces, collectors' editions and what have you, that are wildly overpriced, sometimes double or triple the price that they should be if they were closer to their spot price.
So one of the things I want to do is warn you about those shady gold operators out there.
And some of them have big name spokespeople.
They do.
And I was even approached by one of them a while back, a couple years ago, offering me literally $100,000 a month to plug them because then they could rip off people and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in profits.
And of course I said no, because that's, you know, that's stupid.
It's immoral.
I don't want my audience to be ripped off.
I want my audience to get the best deal possible.
That's why I'm always negotiating discounts, discount codes and deals and very limited affiliate arrangements that offer great value.
And so when it comes to physical gold and silver, whoever you work with, make sure they are highly, highly reputable.
Now, I routinely interview many different people that are involved in the gold and silver space, like David Morgan or Bill Holter or Andy Sheckman, for example.
And all those people are trustworthy people.
They will be honest with you about gold and silver.
And there are other people that I interview in this space as well.
But our official sponsor, which you should always check out and compare prices if you want, is Battalion Metals.
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You can trust that their metals are real, that they're not overcharging you, that they're not trying to sell you some weird collectible garbage, etc.
They don't do any of that stuff.
And wherever you get medals, make sure that you get metals that are recognizable by other gold and silver dealers.
So what this means is that for a lot of coins, typically one troy ounce is the size that you want to purchase.
Now, gold is available in other sizes, quarter ounce, one tenth of an ounce, and those are widely recognized as well.
But the one ounce size is the most universal size.
And then there are only about, I don't know, six or seven world mints.
You know, there's a mint in South Africa.
There's a mint in Australia.
There's a mint in Canada.
There's a mint in Japan.
There's the U.S. mint, etc.
Just a few world mints that are recognized.
So whether that means, you know, you're buying kangaroos or Krugerans or, you know, Britannias or whatever, or Eagles from the U.S. mint, make sure it's from one of those main mints so that if you go to any gold dealer and say, hey, here, I've got, you know, I've got buffaloes.
Are buffaloes legit?
They're like, yep, we know what buffaloes are.
Or I've got kangaroos.
What are those?
Yeah, those are legit.
I've got Krugerans.
Those are legit.
Yeah.
Everybody knows.
So get the common forms that are more liquid because then people don't have all kinds of questions like, what is this?
What is this weird thing?
You don't want to buy a bunch of weird things when it comes to gold and silver.
Now, there are other forms that are more spendable, like gold backs, for example, which I'm an advocate of gold backs at some level in your portfolio because it's spendable, because it's like, here's a thousandth of an ounce of gold in a format that's got high utility.
But if you're just trying to maximize the total ounces of gold that you get for your dollars, then you're going to want to go to battalion metals, metalswithmike.com, and just buy ounces or even bars.
But ounces, again, are the most recognizable.
So I just recommend to keep it simple, buy one ounce coins.
So that's the proper way to buy coins.
Don't get talked into some kind of weird thing.
You know, you should, at the end of the day, when you're about to make a purchase, you should look at how much money are you spending.
Let's say you're spending $100,000 and how many ounces are you getting?
Whatever that is, you should just double check it.
Do the math.
Like, how much am I paying per ounce?
Period.
Because, you know, for gold right now, you might pay $3,500 an ounce or something, or maybe more, depending on where the prices go.
But if you find out that you're paying like $7,000 an ounce because the dealer told you, well, these are collector's coins or, you know, no, don't do that.
You should be paying the spot plus premium, which is normal for any coin because it costs money to, you know, to stamp out coins, right?
It costs money to mint coins.
So there's always a premium over spot.
Like spot is basically the melt value, right?
So every coin is going to cost you spot plus premium.
And right now in the silver market, those premiums can be very low, like $3.50 an ounce or something, maybe even lower.
Whereas when everybody panics and wants silver, those premiums will go up to $12 or more.
So right now, because premiums are relatively low across the board, this is a great time to actually get metal at low premiums.
But you want to make sure you're getting the number of ounces that you should be getting for the dollars that you're spending.
So always do that math.
Same thing with silver.
What is silver right now?
Like 38 plus spot, plus, let's say $3 or $4 premium.
You might pay $42 for an ounce of silver right now.
And that's reasonable.
And again, that can go up or down based on the market, depending on when you hear this.
But if you're paying like $70 for an ounce of silver, you're getting ripped off.
So don't do that.
Make sure you're getting a good price.
All right.
So that's step one is how to buy it.
And I don't recommend buying ETFs because that's just an IOU for silver or gold.
It's not the real metal.
I recommend buying the real metal.
And if you have it vaulted, which is fine, make sure it's allocated to you.
It shouldn't be pooled gold or silver, which is almost an IOU, really.
It should be allocated.
Or you can also get it segregated, which is a very specific, like these are your coins.
These are your bars segregated in its own cage or whatever in the vault.
That's going to be the most expensive storage option, but it's also the most secure.
I'm okay with allocated, which is that you've got the claim to X number of ounces of gold or silver in the vault that is physically there.
That's a little bit different from segregated, but I'm okay with allocated.
I'm not okay with unallocated or pooled.
So try to avoid those, even though the storage costs are much lower.
The second question is, how do you own it?
And you may think that's a weird question.
What do you mean?
I just own it.
Well, is it a good idea to own the gold and silver under your name, your social security number?
Because what if you have a lawsuit?
What if there's a tax liability on you?
Then you would have to list that as an asset and it could be subject to confiscation through, you know, through the courts or through the government or who knows what?
Or some financial collapse scenario ends up taking it from people, like some bank bail-in or whatever.
So my co-host for my show called Decentralized TV, his name is Todd Pittner.
He is the expert on a vehicle.
It's a tax advantaged vehicle called a UNA.
It's an unincorporated nonprofit association or a UNA.
And if you want to watch his video presentation of what this is, because this is an extraordinary vehicle that can save you a lot of money and help you keep what you earn and also segment your assets under its own EIN number where it's not under your social security number.
So it's a firewall that protects those assets from any liability that you might have.
And yet you still have control over that UNA.
So you can learn about this vehicle at his website.
It's called my575E.com or my575E.com.
I recommend that you investigate this because this structure called the 575E or a UNA, this is under California law that apparently was written for the California lawmakers and California billionaires and wealthy people so they could keep more of their earnings.
And it allows you to donate up to 60% of your W-2 income into your own nonprofit where you still control it, but it's not under your name, right?
You control it, but you don't, quote, own it.
And you can open bank accounts.
You can open a crypto account with Kraken.
You can open accounts with investment houses.
You can open vaulting accounts.
You can vault gold and silver or buy gold and silver and hold it in the name of the UNA so that it's segmented from you.
And it doesn't cost that much money to set these up.
It's a few thousand dollars.
And it's a bargain given how much you save and how much protection you get from having this structure.
It's recognized under California law.
There's all this precedent with the IRS and tax authorities, etc.
And it's the vehicle that's used by wealthy people and almost nobody knows about it.
And most accountants don't know about it.
Now, I'm not an accountant and I'm not your tax advisor.
So, you know, of course, do your own research on this and figure out for yourself what's the best for you.
But the way to do the research is to go to my575E.com.
And there's a video there.
I think you can enter an email.
You can sign up.
And you can also pay $150 and have a one-hour consultation with Todd Pittner.
And he can answer your questions and describe this to you.
This is the best way, in my opinion, to legally own gold and silver because it's insulated from you and it gives you all kinds of options that normally aren't available to people.
And especially if you have a substantial amount of gold and silver and if you ever plan to sell it one day, you know, to redeem it for fiat currency, well, if the price goes up, as we anticipate it will, and then you sell gold, you're going to have a taxable event of a lot of profit.
You're going to end up paying massive taxes on the profit of that gold and silver.
But if you own that gold and silver under an unincorporated nonprofit association, and then you sell the gold and silver in exchange for currency or cash that also goes into the UNA, then it's not a taxable event.
It's because it's a non-profit.
Now, again, you know, do the research, learn about this, find out why that's the case.
This is my understanding of it, but I'm not an accountant and I'm not trying to give you tax advice.
But my understanding is that that is not a taxable event and it's kept in the UNA.
So remember, one of the reasons why many people are buying gold and silver right now is because they anticipate the value going way, way up.
You don't want to end up paying massive federal taxes on that when the dollar is losing value, right?
You're trying to preserve your assets, not give them back to the federal government, but you want to do so.
You want to protect your assets in a way that's legal, in a way that's written into state law.
And even though this is a California law, every American has access to this, even if you're not living in California.
It's just not available to people who are not Americans.
So you do have to be an American citizen in order to take advantage of this structure.
So sorry for those of you in Canada, there's nothing like this in Canada.
Not that I'm aware of.
But in America, it's readily available.
And the website to find that is my575E.com.
And frankly, I would consider a UNA for owning your home or for owning vehicles.
Or if you have a business that has some risk associated with it, like let's say you have a jet ski rental company or something, well, there's a lot of risk.
People can kill themselves on the jet skis or kill each other or cause property damage and accidentally rammed a boat or whatever.
In my opinion, you definitely need that under UNA because that segments it and gives you a firewall where there's the liability protection doesn't, you know, the lawsuits don't bleed over into your personal assets because it's all under the UNA.
So check out that information.
Think about that.
If you're going to own or hold or vault, especially if you're going to vault a large amount of gold and silver, you should think very seriously about creating your own UNA.
You can have it be your name.
It can be like your last name, like the, you know, the Jones Foundation or whatever.
So, you know, you make up the name and then you're the secretary on it.
You control it, but it has its own EIN number.
It's not your social security number.
And you aren't technically the owner of those assets.
So if something happens to you and they say, oh, you have to list all your assets, well, you don't have to list those because you don't own them.
But again, don't take this as legal advice.
You know, get your own advisors.
I always encourage you to do your own research, get your own advisors, and find out what's best for you.
But at least consider this.
It's a very valuable vehicle for this purpose.
All right, so that's one way to own gold and silver.
Now, how do you store it?
How do you store it safely?
Well, we've talked about vaulting.
If you do engage in vaulting, make sure that it's allocated, not pooled.
But what about physically keeping gold and silver?
Well, I've talked about this a lot in my previous books, like the Global Reset Survival Guide.
You can download that book for free at globalreset.news, by the way.
But let me shorten it up here for you, give you the thumbnail version.
Number one, most thieves expect your gold to be in a safe in your master bedroom closet.
So that's where most people put their gold and silver because they feel like it's safer if it's closer to them.
And that's a huge mistake because that's exactly where thieves go.
And most so-called home safes are not even technically safes.
They're really just residential security containers.
I think that's how they're designated.
They can be defeated in two minutes or less by a thief with a drill.
Okay?
So that's the last place that you want to put gold.
I have suggested previously that if you want to buy like fake gold, like play gold, you can go on eBay and you can buy like pirates gold type of like metal coins that are painted gold.
You know, it's just a prop.
You know, it's like a movie prop or whatever.
You can buy that stuff and stick it in your safe so that if the thief gets in your house and gets into your safe, they're going to think they got the gold.
They're going to take that and leave.
But it's not gold.
It's just, you know, it's just metal painted gold.
You don't want to put your gold there.
So you need to store it in a place that is very unlikely to be found.
And there's a trade-off for this.
The better the security is of where you hide it, the harder it's going to be to recover when you need to recover it.
So let's take like the typical thing.
People put it in a container and they bury it in their yard.
And then they draw a secret treasure map.
It's 50 paces from the oak tree or whatever.
That's always a bad idea because the oak tree might not be there next year.
Who knows?
That's one way to do it.
The problem is then you have to determine who are you going to trust with the knowledge of where it's buried.
And if you don't tell anybody and something happens to you, then that gold's lost forever, probably.
And the second part is it's going to take some effort to dig it back up.
It's going to take a shovel and a few hours of work, perhaps.
But maybe you like that security.
Gold that is buried, especially if it's buried beneath at least 18 inches of soil, is very difficult for metal detectors to pick up at all.
It's just kind of hard to get to.
So that is one thing to consider.
If you do that, make sure that you bury it in a container that is crush-proof and also waterproof.
So just think about what those might be.
Now there's an easier retrieval method.
I've mentioned this before.
You can go out to your home depot and you can buy forms for pouring concrete stepping stones or concrete blocks for your walkway.
And what you can typically do is you can take like a roll of gold coins and you can put it into that when you're pouring the concrete.
You know, you get the quick concrete mix and you buy these forms and then you can pour concrete blocks, but you can pour gold in them or other coins or whatever.
And then if you ever need the gold, you know, it's just one sledgehammer away.
Pretty easy to get it.
And very few people are going to suspect that your stepping stones are filled with gold because nobody does that.
So that's something to consider.
And you can also pour other objects such as like a sitting bench, right?
Maybe that sitting bench is worth a million dollars because it's filled with gold inside.
You can probably find a form for that or you can find forms for other things.
And, you know, you can pour gold into concrete and it's pretty easy to get it out with a sledgehammer, especially when you don't have a rebar reinforcement in it.
Just, you know, concrete by itself is pretty fragile.
So it's pretty easy to get out.
So that's something to consider.
An easier way is to just put it in the bottom of a pot of soup that you freeze in the freezer.
But of course, that's a more commonly known hiding place.
And that could be found out pretty easily.
So I don't recommend that one.
Another method, which is a little more involved, is to get a like a rain collection barrel or a storage tank and set it up at the corner of your house where the gutter comes down and have the gutter go into it to fill it with water.
And it just looks like a water collection tank.
But you bury your gold beneath the water collection tank before you put all this in place.
Now, what does that accomplish?
Well, I mean, first of all, yeah, you put it maybe six inches underground or whatever is convenient for you.
It's hard to move a water tank.
Let's say a 200-gallon water tank.
You know, that weighs well over a thousand pounds.
So people aren't going to move that very easily.
And if they try to drain it, it's going to take time.
Mostly, thieves aren't looking under water storage tanks for gold because almost always that would be a waste of time.
So think about objects like that that could be heavy and difficult to move that could sit on top of your gold.
And that would be a great place to hide it where it's still retrievable.
It just takes effort and time to retrieve it.
Now, the extreme example of this, which comes with a warning, is if you have a septic tank, then see, like nobody's looking for gold in your septic tank.
Okay.
You could have a gold container.
You want to make sure it's large enough that it doesn't get sucked up into a septic vacuum pump.
And you could drop it down into your septic tank with a, you know, with a cable or a chain or something to be able to retrieve it.
This would just be in extreme circumstances because obviously, you know, once you pull it out, it's going to be nasty.
But that's like nobody's going to look for gold in a septic tank.
So that's a very secure way to store it.
But you got to remember to remove it before you have your septic tank pumped out.
Otherwise, your septic guy might find a bucket of gold or whatever.
It's like, wow, I thought I got into this business to pump shit.
It turns out I found a pot of gold.
That would be the most amazing discovery.
Now, I know that in the past people have hidden large amounts of gold in appliances.
You know, they've hidden gold in TVs.
I don't recommend that because TVs get old and they get thrown out.
People hide gold in their walls.
You know, they open up the drywall and stuff a bunch of gold in between the 16-inch two by fours, you know, the framing.
And then they put the drywall back in place.
Yeah, that's not a horrible idea if you can do good drywall and you can cover it up.
But of course, when you need to get to that gold, you're going to have to take a sledgehammer to your wall.
So that might not be convenient.
Now, be careful if you live near a river because all rivers flood sooner or later.
And when they do, sometimes your front yard or your backyard can be just wiped away.
And there goes your secret buried treasure with it.
I've heard stories of people who lived in mountainous regions and then they had mudslides basically and wipe out their yard and takes their gold also.
You know, good luck digging through all that.
It's a whole mountain of mud that just came down, right?
Same problem can happen with your home.
And you might have a fire in your home.
Now, gold doesn't burn, nor does silver, but it does melt.
So you could end up with a pool of gold that is less valuable and less liquid than the gold ounces you started with, depending on how hot your house fire is.
But these are all good arguments for storing gold outside the home in some way.
I say it's good to spread it around a little bit, reduce your risk.
Maybe you have some vaulted and you have some stored.
Maybe you have a smaller amount that's actually in your home in case you need it quickly.
And then you have a larger amount that's buried or put away in concrete somewhere so you can get to it with some effort.
That's a very reasonable approach.
You have tiers of convenience versus risk.
And you can have a little bit of your metal kind of distributed around in those different methods.
The bottom line is be smart about where you're storing your metal and think about risk versus security and think about acquiring it in a way that is honest, that you get the most ounces of metal for your dollars and make sure that you have access to it.
So I don't think you should store it in safe deposit boxes at banks because those can be confiscated or banks can have bail-ins.
And I don't believe in owning gold and silver via ETFs because the ETFs are just paper IOUs or promises that may evaporate.
So keep all of this in mind.
All right, let's shift gears here and talk about other commodities, but I don't mean just investment commodities.
I mean physical things like food or land or vehicles or homes.
And I want us to look at that strategy in light of the anticipation of the revaluation of gold.
Now, obviously, as we've covered so far, and as I've confirmed with people like David Morgan, when gold is revalued, no matter what the price is, it's going to devalue the dollar.
And this is going to then make all physical goods or nearly all physical goods much more expensive in dollar terms.
At the same time, the counterforce against that will be the fact that so many people will become impoverished because their dollars don't go as far.
And so there will be a reconfiguration of the spending priorities.
So in other words, people won't be buying luxury goods nearly as much or taking vacations or eating out at restaurants nearly as much, especially the higher-end restaurants.
And people will reconfigure their purchases to the basic necessities, food from the dollar store, which is an atrocious selection of processed foods.
I just found out because I was forced to walk into a dollar store on a recent road trip and I almost lost my mind.
Like, no wonder everybody's got cancer and diabetes and heart disease.
Look at this.
Anyway, it also looked like a garage sale for some reason, like everything was just laid out all over the place.
Sometimes it was on the shelf.
Sometimes, I mean, it frankly, it looked like the place had been ransacked, but that's just, I don't know, that's just a reflection of the culture.
So, speaking about commodities then, back on track.
Getting out of dollars and into physical goods will be more important than ever under this new gold revaluation strategy.
And I don't even mean to say that, even if you agree with everything that I've said here that I've laid out, it doesn't mean that you should take every last dollar and buy gold with it.
In fact, the very first things that you should make sure you have are the basic necessities.
You should make sure you have a roof over your head.
You should make sure that you've got a food supply.
You know, you should make sure you've got a means of self-defense, etc.
Emergency medicine supplies, all of these kinds of things.
Gold is for asset preservation beyond those basics.
So if you have a decision of whether, you know, should you buy gold or should you pay off your house first, I would actually advise you to look into paying off your house first, just because we don't know what the banks are going to do with loans or calling in loans or what's going to happen, especially if you have a variable interest rate, that interest rate could radically worsen.
You know, lots of possibilities.
I've always said own the roof over your head.
Own it free and clear so that all you have to pay is property taxes.
And even in some places, that's being, well, there's a debate about eliminating property taxes in states like Florida and maybe even Texas, but who knows?
That seems unlikely.
But then think about how are you going to pay your property taxes.
So in states like Texas, where gold is considered money now legally, it's recognized as money, it's a good idea to have gold and silver to be able to pay your property taxes if your local government is still functioning.
And that brings up the point, another point of precious metals.
So silver is very useful for local payments, local barter.
If you're buying food from a farmer's market or trading with your neighbors or what have you, silver is universally recognized as something that has value, and so is gold.
But silver is, of course, smaller denominations, more divisible.
That's why it's good to have a supply of silver.
But in addition to those things, own your home and own the land that you plan to grow food on.
Now, I know some people say, well, we should all have community gardens.
Okay, that's great until everybody's starving to death.
And, you know, community gardens work in a high polite society, high polite societies, right?
Or high politeness, or high trust society where everybody's obeying the rules and they're not going to just steal your cucumbers or whatever.
In a low trust society or low politeness society, yeah, your community garden is going to be just wiped out.
It's going to get ransacked.
And the only garden that's going to still be there is one that you can defend.
So it's important that if you plan to grow food, you're growing food on your own land, land that you can defend, and ideally land that is, of course, far away from the cities or the type of people who might steal from other people's gardens.
So that means investing in some garden seeds and some high-quality gardening tools, things like that, including power tools for repairs, plumbing repair tools like the PEX crimpers or the PEX pipe expanders and making sure that you've got, you know, power drills or a grinder that are cordless tools.
I've talked about that previously.
I settled on the Milwaukee brand because it's very, in my experience, has been the most reliable.
But these are kinds of things that you should have in addition to gold and silver.
Now, the supply chains are getting wrecked for American consumers.
They're getting wrecked by Trump's tariffs.
Now, recently, Trump slapped tariffs on India.
I think it's 50% now, total tariffs on India, something like that, or close to it.
50% tariffs on Brazil.
And he's threatening 100% tariffs additionally on China.
Well, this is causing India, which has been a longtime U.S. ally, to meet with China and to meet with Russia and to meet with Brazil.
And India is becoming a strong advocate of the BRICS system, which of course is the alternative to the U.S. dollar SWIFT system.
And importantly, even though Trump has effectively bullied India and China and Brazil and Russia to try to get them to do what he wants, it turns out that his bullying is not working.
These countries are saying, nope, we're not going to go along with your demands.
We're going to do our own thing and we're just going to continue to trade with each other, actually.
In fact, India doesn't trade that much with the United States.
And so India's GDP is not significantly harmed by halting trade with the U.S., it turns out.
But the U.S. is harmed by the inability to source a lot of certain pharmaceuticals and also electric transformers for new building construction and a lot of agriculture equipment, including sort of low-cost tractors and things like that.
So ultimately, what Trump's tactics are going to achieve is strengthening BRICS and driving allies like India and Brazil into the hands of BRICS.
Trump is even punishing our allies like Taiwan and Japan and even Korea to some extent and also hammering Vietnam with extra tariffs.
So this is going to cause the collapse of global supply chains, which means that Americans are going to be hard-pressed to be able to find things that they take for granted right now.
And many of these things are based on commodities.
For example, electrical wiring for new construction.
It relies on copper and aluminum, and that's going to become increasingly scarce.
And you can probably imagine a lot of vitamins are going to be very difficult to get because most people, most companies, import vitamins from China and India.
That's number one and number two.
And the vitamin imports have been absolutely halted from China, and they're about to be halted from India.
And that includes, you know, B vitamins and vitamin C and vitamin D and everything else.
All kinds of extracts and herbs and even certain superfoods and things like that, because China and India dominate that market.
So those are going to become very, very difficult to get, which means that investing in those items that you know are going to experience a shortfall may pay off big time because if the prices of those things triple, then by purchasing them today, obviously you're getting them at one-third the price of where they are going.
And some of those will double or triple or maybe even quadruple depending on the item.
This is also a really important time.
There's a bit of a health discussion here to do your best to transition safely off of whatever prescription drugs that you can let go of under the guidance of a naturopathic physician.
So go to your favorite naturopath, explain, hey, look, I'm trying to get off these prescription drugs.
I don't know what people are on, like antidepressant drugs and high blood pressure drugs and cholesterol drugs and on and on.
Yeah, well, guess what?
There's a natural alternative for all that stuff for almost everything.
Granted, there are certain health conditions where there's not a natural alternative.
Like, you know, if you have type 1 diabetes and you need insulin, well, then you just need insulin.
There's not like an insulin herb replacement.
So there are exceptions to that.
But for most of the drugs that people take, there are either lifestyle changes, food changes, behavioral changes, or natural supplement changes that can replace or even resolve the underlying problems, which should really be the goal.
This is a really important time to be thinking about that because we're about to experience extreme shortages of pharmaceuticals and, like I said, certain vitamins and so on because of these tariffs.
And when you think about gold being revalued and then the value of the dollar dropping versus gold, well, the value of the dollar is also going to drop versus vitamin C. So the dollar to vitamin C ratio is going to get a lot worse.
You're going to need a lot more dollars to buy vitamin C, just like you need more dollars to buy silver or gold.
That's going to get a lot worse.
So think about all these things that you consume, things that you use, things that are part, a necessary part of your lifestyle as being other commodities to consider in this process.
Commodities that might have a fairly long shelf life.
You know, vitamin C typically has two plus years shelf life.
Often it can be even more.
It can be five years.
And some of the items that we sell at healthrangerstore.com, such as the freeze-dried fruits and so on, in the number 10 steel cans, those can last a decade, even though they're only labeled for two years.
That's just sort of one of the FDA labeling rules.
But freeze-dried foods can last much, much longer.
And in a world where fresh fruit, or certainly organic fruit, is going to get incredibly expensive, even like freeze-dried mangoes, which we currently import from numerous countries.
I don't know, maybe one of those countries is Brazil, but wherever it comes from, those supply chains are going to get just wrecked.
So, I mean, right now, turmeric is already becoming a problem because of the tariffs on India, because we get the cleanest organic turmeric lots from India.
Whereas the lots that come from Southeast Asia are typically very heavily contaminated with lead.
You know, lead is the number one concern with turmeric.
So we get it from India where it's much cleaner.
And now these tariffs on India, you know, plus 50%, well, that's going to hit the turmeric market hard.
And some of the Indian exporters may decide not to export it to the United States at all because it's just too much hassle to deal with the tariffs and the paperwork and the payments and whatever and the delays, you know, and the uncertainty because you don't know if Trump's going to change his mind tomorrow.
You know, you send turmeric on a ship to America, and that's a couple of weeks.
And then by the time it gets there, Trump may have already decided, oh, it's 100% now.
You know what I mean?
So why would you even take that risk as an exporter?
And a lot of people will not take that risk.
Talking about vehicles.
So do you own a car free and clear or some kind of transport vehicle, truck, or SUV or whatever?
Do you own it free and clear?
You don't want to have to make payments on a vehicle because those payments, I mean, it may be impossible to acquire money easily in the future.
So you want to own a vehicle free and clear.
And ideally, you want that to be a diesel vehicle because, as I've said before, you want to store diesel fuel if you can, because it's the safest fuel to store and it has more energy per gallon than gasoline by far.
Did you know that?
Did you know that 10 gallons of diesel will take you much farther down the road than 10 gallons of gas, given that the vehicle is the same weight?
Yeah, it's true.
Diesel has more energy.
So it's more efficient to store and it's safer to store.
So these are the kinds of things to think about.
And if you can, wherever you live, get a diesel generator, get a 500-gallon diesel storage tank, make sure it's legal, make sure it's safe, make sure it's a double-walled tank with proper ventilation, etc.
And then get yourself 500 gallons of diesel.
You can power your generator and your generator can charge your cordless tools and your tools can fix your plumbing.
And then you can also power your vehicle if you need to engage in transport to and from the farmer's market.
And then you've got your silver, your gold, your gold backs, and your nine millimeter ammo to barter with at the farmer's market.
And then you're going to need your AR-15 and your pistol with you in your truck, your diesel truck for safety along the way because you don't want to get highway robbed along the way.
So these are some things to think about.
These are commodities that are very, very important to consider.
I just mentioned ammo.
Right now, ammunition is the lowest price that I've seen in five years.
And so I'm buying ammo right now.
And I hadn't bought ammo for quite a long time because the prices were pretty insane.
I mean, I've seen 5.56 prices almost down to close to like 30 cents around, which we haven't seen that in years.
I mean, I think during COVID they were like 50 to 80 cents around.
And 9mm rounds are back down to like close to 20 cents in bulk, which is really remarkable.
So this is the time to purchase ammo.
Some other really important items to consider.
If you think there's a risk of a nuclear war, consider iodine.
Obviously, we have a supply of iodine at healthrangerstore.com.
We have essential oils.
We have laundry detergent.
You know, we have body soap, all fragrance-free, of course.
We have storable food, certified organic, laboratory-tested, different formats.
We've got them in the Ranger buckets, and we've also got them in the number 10 cans, which are the steel cans that are absolutely rodent-proof.
And remember what I said earlier: make sure that you store your supplies, your food supplies, in something that rats can't chew through because they will chew through all kinds of things in order to get to what they want.
In fact, I store interesting items, and I had a jug of nursery water stored from several years ago.
It's like a milk jug of water with fluoride added to it.
And it's sold at pharmacies as quote nursery water.
It's like fluoride water if you want to poison your baby, you know.
And so I had a jug of nursery water on the shelf.
And then this just happened yesterday.
And I'm walking by it.
I'm like, oh my God, the floor is all covered with water and the nursery water is gone.
It turns out some rat chewed open the nursery water and apparently poisoned itself with fluoride.
I mean, it was thirsty, I guess, and it went after the nursery water.
I'm like, dang it.
And I've seen rats chew through olive oil plastic jugs, which is why I've said, if you buy olive oil, buy it in steel cans.
And it is available in steel cans.
So just keep all of this in mind.
When we talk about commodities, it's not just for investors.
It's not just somebody that's placing futures on oil or whatever.
This is for everybody to consider.
What do you need to live?
What do you need in terms of transportation?
What do you need in terms of self-defense?
And then what do you need as a form of money and a form of asset protection, which would be the gold and silver, etc.
So consider all these things.
Now, let me give you some additional resources that can connect you with some of our affiliates, our sponsors, etc., that offer many, many solutions for you.
If you go to rangerdeals.com, that's the best place to see our affiliate listings.
And there you'll find affiliates that offer all kinds of things from gold and silver to gold backs to firearms that connects you to shield arms to hoplite body armor, everything at a discount because there's a discount code offered there.
Chlorine dioxide, but that's the EPA has halted those sales in the U.S. for now.
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So check all that out at rangerdeals.com.
And then of course, if you're looking for gold and silver, go to metalswithmike.com and that will forward you to battalion metals.
And when you're ready for storable food or to increase your supply of storable food, you can purchase directly from us at healthrangerstore.com.
And we are keeping prices as low as we can.
We never raise prices to gouge anybody.
We only raise prices as a last-ditch effort when we are forced to, when a new higher-price batch comes in that we had to pay more for.
Then we raise the price.
But if we still have inventory at a lower price for a previous lot of raw materials that came in, we will sell it at the lower price, even though other companies might be raising their prices.
to the new price.
We will go ahead and sell at the lower price until that lot is completely sold.
So you'll notice if you shop with us, even though we are, of course, we're not the dollar store, that's for sure.
We're not the cheap alternative.
We are laboratory tested, certified organic, you know, meticulously formulated, extremely high-quality ingredients like our macaroni and cheese instant meals are made with real organic cream powder, real organic cheddar cheese powder, real organic butter powder, etc.
It's not just a bunch of maltodextrin and garbage.
I don't know, what do they make this stuff out of?
Like artificial colors and fake oils and seed oils and crap, right?
No, we don't do that.
So our foods are more expensive than cheap garbage from the grocery store.
Yes, but we keep the prices down as best we can.
And we don't price gouge.
However, you know, if our turmeric price goes up 50% from India, guess what?
Our turmeric products are going to go up probably 50%.
I mean, there's no way around that for us.
So, and we're already out.
We're sold out of turmeric tinctures.
All right, so keep all that in mind.
And thank you for listening.
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